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Have you ever had a pain in your head, lead, arm or any other muscle in your body? Well many Americans and other people around the world has had any type of pain. In today’s time we have medicine that can prevent these types of aches and pains like Tylenol, Aleve, pain relievers and Ibuprofen. Medicines like this this relieve our daily aches and pain that we might have throughout our lives; these types of medicine are one of the most common used medicine used in the world today. Also these types of medicine has a lot to do with chemistry and how chemistry came into the development of this specific medicine Ibuprofen.

Ibuprofen is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used for pain relief, fever reduction and for reducing swelling. There are many names for Ibuprofen such as Advil, Midol, and Motrin etc. Many people would use this drug if they had sore muscles probably from playing a sport, or if they wake up with a fever, or if they have swelling in an area of the body. This drug can have side effects also like abdominal pain, diarrhea, heartburn, and itchy skin, shortness of breath, vomiting and weight gain. The list goes on and on with many side effects that you could have using Ibuprofen.

Ibuprofen chemical structure is (CH3)2 CHCH2 C6 H4 CH (CH3) COOH its melting point id 74-77 degrees Celsius and it’s also a stable white crystallite powder it’s also soluble in water but is very soluble in ethanol. Ibuprofen was discovered by a company called boots and the person in charge was Dr. Stewart Adams and his partners were John Nicholson and Collin Burrows. It was discovered in 1955 in 1966 Ibuprofen was put in a hospital to show its anti-inflammatory effect on patients, 1969 Ibuprofen was launched in the United Kingdom on prescrip...

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...at can cure many types of other things besides headaches and muscle pain.

In conclusion, many Americans today have muscle pains, headaches and all sorts of other things they deal with on a daily bases. That is why most Americans take medicine to get rid of these symptoms that they have. Ibuprofen is one of the types of medicine we take today to help us feel better, so we can continue our day. The history of Ibuprofen is unique it’s connected to chemistry in many ways for example the chemical properties that are found in Ibuprofen and the chemical structure it has. Also we can find out its melting point which is 74-77 degrees Celsius also it is also a stable white crystallite powder and it’s soluble in water, but it’s very soluble in ethanol. There are many connection we can make with Ibuprofen and the history of chemistry and how it helped people around the world.